Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

✍ Scribed by Thomas T. Allsen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 262
Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Thomas Allsen is one of the foremost historians of the Mongol empire. His latest book breaks new scholarly boundaries in its exploration of cultural and scientific exchanges between Iran and China. Contrary to popular belief, Mongol rulers were intensely interested in the culture of their sedentary subjects. Under their auspices, various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The result was a lively exchange of scientists, scholars and ritual specialists between East and West. The book is broad-ranging and erudite and promises to become a classic in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Note on transliteration......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 12
Part I. Background......Page 16
1. Introduction......Page 18
2. Before the Mongols......Page 23
Part II. Political–economic relations......Page 30
3. Formation of the Il-qans, 1251–1265......Page 32
4. Grand Qans and Il-qans, 1265–1295......Page 39
5. Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295–1304......Page 46
6. Sultans and Grand Qans, 1304– 1335......Page 50
7. Economic ties......Page 56
8. Overview of the relationship......Page 66
Part III. Intermediaries......Page 72
9. Marco Polo and Po-lo......Page 74
10. Qubilai and Bolad Aqa......Page 78
11. Rashid al-Din and Pulad chinksank......Page 87
Part IV. Cultural exchange......Page 96
12. Historiography......Page 98
13. Geography and cartography......Page 118
14. Agriculture......Page 130
15. Cuisine......Page 142
16. Medicine......Page 156
17. Astronomy......Page 176
18. Printing......Page 191
Part V. Analysis and conclusions......Page 201
19. Models and methods......Page 204
20. Agency......Page 208
21. Filtering......Page 218
22. Summation......Page 225
Bibliography......Page 227
Index......Page 253

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

📁 Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

✍ Thomas T. Allsen 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The

📁 Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors

✍ Reuven Amitai (editor); Michal Biran (editor); Anand A. Yang (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 University of Hawaii Press 🌐 English

<p>Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing thr

Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The

📁 Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors

✍ Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 University of Hawai’i Press 🌐 English

Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat

The Mongol Conquests in World History

📁 The Mongol Conquests in World History

✍ Timothy May 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Reaktion Books 🌐 English

<P><BR><DIV>The Mongol Empire can be seen as marking the beginning of the modern age, and of globalization as well. While communications between the extremes of Eurasia existed prior to the Mongols, they were infrequent and often through intermediaries. As this new book by Timothy May shows, the ris

The Mongol Conquest in World History

📁 The Mongol Conquest in World History

✍ Timothy May 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Reaktion Books 🌐 English

The Mongol Empire can be seen as marking the beginning of the modern age, and of globalization as well. While communications between the extremes of Eurasia existed prior to the Mongols, they were infrequent and often through intermediaries. As this new book by Timothy May shows, the rise of the Mon

Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia:

📁 Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals

✍ Michal Biran (editor), Jonathan Brack (editor), Francesca Fiaschetti (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled pe